Honorable Mention – SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS – One of the best bad movies ever made. Your whole family will have a blast watching this–especially if you get the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version. It’s good to see Santa has other skills.
#12 BAD SANTA – Speaking of other skillz….BAD SANTA is hilarious. Billy Bob Thornton plays a department store Santa who only gets the job to rob them. He’s rude, crude, given up on life, and I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. Not for kids, but every adult with a sense of humor will be howling.
#11 DIE HARD – Okay, not your traditional Yule fare, but hey, it’s Christmas Eve at the Nakatomi building, and John McClane is needed. One of the greatest actions movies of all time, and the Christmas time period allows me to proudly put it on my list.
#10 THE REF – A darkly funny movie. Denis Leary plays a thief who stumbles into the house of the most messed up family imaginable. He definitely got more than he bargained for. Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis are a riot, and Leary is in fine form. Great Anti-Christmas caper, but still with a warm fuzzy ending.
#9 NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION – My favorite of the Vacation movies (and that’s saying something, since the first two feature nudity). Highlights definitely include Randy Quaid, the dog and that cat. The poor cat…..
#7 A CHRISTMAS CAROL – I’m including every version here. I personally like the 1938 Alistir Sim version best, just ahead of the 1976 George C. Scott one, but I like them all, including 1951, the screwy American Christmas Carol (featuring Fonzy!), the Mr. Magoo one, and the Muppet one, which I recently saw and is classic.
#6 THE FAMILY MAN – I have loved this movie since the moment I first saw it. Sort of a twist on the George Bailey set up, Nicolas Cage’s character gets a “glimpse” of what his life would have been like if he’d married the girl instead of going for the big bucks. Great great film. Can’t recommend it enough. You know how I feel about kids, but the daughter in the movie is simply adorable.
#5 HOME ALONE – What more can I say about this? Kevin is great, the robbers hysterical, and in every way a superior family film. Never gets old, either.
#4 LOVE ACTUALLY – One of the real gems of the past couple of years. Set in Britain the four weeks before Christmas, LOVE ACTUALLY shows us the lives and loves of many (perhaps a couple too many) interlocking characters. The films is R (for some pointless nudity, although is any nudity ever pointless?), but even my mom was won over. Everyone will have their favorite story lines. Mine involves the kid in the band and the Portuguese woman…of course.
#3 A CHRISTMAS STORY – TBS usually runs this movie 24 hours straight, and I can’t wait. Perhaps the best narrated movie ever, and does anyone else feel like THE WONDER YEARS ripped off their concept? How many classics do we have from here? The leg lamp, Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra, the tongue on the pole, the dream sequences, the secret decoder, and of course, shooting your eye out.
#2 MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET – Warm, heartrending, a wiz-bang of a court scene, just a little scary, a cute kid (you know how I love cute girls), the best beard ever, and anything else you can think of. This film works so well they remade it, in a fine version, but Hyperion says: when a movie is perfect, why remake it? Just stick with the original. You too.
And the number one Christmas movie ever…..
#1 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – Like there was ever a doubt.
(List originally written 12/05 on Rank Everything)
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